Unconventional Lifestyles Whit Aldridge

Lily is an artist who frequently embeds in research expeditions to remote environments. Her immersive large-scale paintings of bizarre environments and animals aim to transport viewers to these far flung worlds and expose them to new discoveries. Simonson spent three months scuba diving and camping in Antarctica as the 2014-15 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Awardee. She has also served as the resident artist aboard ocean-o-graphic expeditions on the Research Vessels Atlantis and Melville, and the Exploration Vessel Nautilus.
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Andrew Thurber - Discovered kiwa puravita, a species of Yeti Crab in 2010. NSF Antarctic Program grantee for deep sea exploration and Antarctic Research
Paul Dayton - During a 35-year career at Scripps, Dayton has researched coastal Antarctic habitats and the rocky shore habitats of Washington in order to better understand marine ecosystems. He has also documented the environmental impacts of overfishing, and phenomena such as El Niño on coastal ecology. Antarctic Researcher and diver
Dave Checkley - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Diana Wall - Dr. Diana Wall, University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University was appointed as the Founding Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability in 2008. A professor in the Department of Biology and Senior Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Diana is responsible for helping faculty and students contribute to progress towards a sustainable future.
Bob Ballard - a retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. He leads ocean exploration on E/V Nautilus.
Maria Sibylla Merian - was one of the only successful female artists and scientists in the 17th Century. She funded her expeditions through the sale of her artwork and, most notably, discovered the process of metamorphosis.
John James Audubon - was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America (1827–1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species.
Gretchen Hofmann - is professor of ecological physiology of marine organisms at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a B.S. from the University of Wyoming, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Environmental, Population and Organismal Biology.
Rob Robbins - Over 2,100 dives in antarctica.
Steve Rupp - Veteran Antarctic Diver
Rebecca Rutstein - Philadelphia-based artist Rebecca Rutstein – whose work spans painting, installation, sculpture and public art – explores geometric abstraction with a vision inspired by science. Rutstein has been an artist in residence in geologically dynamic locations including Iceland, Hawaii, the Canadian Rockies and Vermont. Most recently, she completed two artist-at-sea residencies aboard research ships where she collaborated with scientists mapping out never-before-seen ocean floor topography from the Galápagos Islands to California and exploring uncharted territory from Vietnam to Guam.
Phil Kyle - Has spent 4 decades working in Antarctica

We catch up with Kelly McCord as she roads-trips through west Africa. Kelly has been to 90+ countries and has been traveling pretty hardcore for the last 13 years.

She scuba dived all over the world, has been medically evacuated out of a very rural island on a Russian cargo plane where no on aboard spoke any of the same languages as her, she has also hike up to Everest base camp in Nepal at 17 thousand feet. We also talk about how she funds her adventures and much much more.

In this episode, we talk about everything from evergreen values to spiritual mindfulness, to his best-selling children’s book series, Zen Pig to his newly developed brand for adults, The Inner Space Program.
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Show Notes:
Tara Brach - A leading western teacher of mindful meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. On iTunes
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Authors Mark Keeps Around

Tony Robbins - American businessman, author, and philanthropist. He became well known from his infomercials and self-help books: Unlimited Power, Unleash the Power Within and Awaken the Giant Within.

Eckhart Tolle - German-born resident of Canada, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose. In 2011, he was listed by Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world.

Tick Naught Han - Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist. He lives in Plum Village in the Dordogne region in the south of France, travelling internationally to give retreats and talks.

Stephen Covey - Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Carl Sagan - Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
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Zen Pig - Mindfulness children’s book series, by bestselling author, Mark Brown. Critically acclaimed children's book character Zen Pig. Every copy sold provides 10 people access to clean water for 1 year!
Website: ZenPigBook.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Pig-1-Issue/dp/0692428488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431950113&sr=8-1&keywords=zen%20pig

Trash Hero - The Trash Hero mission is to create sustainable, community-based projects that remove existing waste, and reduce future waste by inspiring long-term behaviour change
Website: trashhero.org

The Inner Space Program - Mindfulness for adults
Website: theinnerspaceprogram.com
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Find mark online
Instargram: markofthecosmos
Youtube: Mark Brown - The Inner Space Program
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg36XYH-G6MbdhKccCcS7aw
Twitter: @ZenPigBook
Website: ZenPigBook.com
Patreon.com/theinnerspaceprogram

Jared was involved in a special operation in Antarctica where he and a small team delivered hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel to the South Pole station.

Greg is an Alaskan Bush pilot and owner/operator of Kantishna Air Taxi which is located deep inside Denali National Park. Greg spends his summers flying tourist around Denali and his winters traveling to warmer climates such as Kauai. Greg built his operation from the ground up and is now truly living the dream. Get ready to be jealous!

Larry is a professional vagabond and a sponsored traveling photographer who recently summited Denali in the summer of 2016. Larry and I met in Denali National Park where we both worked as grounds crewmen for a small air taxi service known as Kantishna Air Taxi.